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Flood resilience and sustainability measures
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The project incorporates various flood resilience and sustainability features to address concerns in this flood-prone area.
- The building will comply with Appendix G of the building code for flood-resistant construction.
- On-site stormwater retention systems will be implemented, including:
- Green roofs to slow stormwater infiltration
- Below-grade tanks for water storage
- The project aims to improve the neighborhood's resilience during both extreme events and daily rainfall.
- The new building will significantly reduce immediate stormwater runoff compared to the existing structure.
- Additional sustainable design practices will be incorporated, though specific details are not provided in the transcript.
John Woelfling
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This is a flood prone area.
0:16:57
And I have this slide on here because this is at the Coney Island YMCA, which is just around the corner.
0:17:03
We were the architects for that project and that was in construction when Hurricane Sandy occurred.
0:17:08
So we're very familiar with the damage that can occur to a to a project.
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We design our buildings in in flood prone areas to be in compliance with appendix g, which is a requirement, it's a building code requirement.
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But we're also going to be using best practices for DEP storm water management criteria.
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We are gonna have on-site storm water retainage.
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We're gonna have a series of green roofs that can slow that storm water infiltration into the the DEP infrastructure.
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And I I can say, you know, unequivocally, this building will improve this neighborhood's resilience not only during extreme events, but, you know, standard, you know, daily rainfall events.
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What the building will be able to do, which the current building does not do, is it will allow the storm water that hits the site to be retained and slowly introduced into the DEP infrastructure.
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Right now, every drop of water that hits that roof on the existing building goes right into the storm water system and contributes to the overwhelming of the DEP infrastructure in this neighborhood.
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So our project is gonna dramatically improve that by doing that on-site retainage either through the tanks that are gonna be below grade or the roof structures.
0:18:26
So the commissioner brought up a very good point.
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How are we gonna be dealing with resiliency?
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This is one of the ways that we're gonna be dealing with resiliency.
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And that's just one piece of our our what I you know, people call it green.
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This is gonna be a very sustainable project.
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That's just the way we practice.
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So that's an important piece of our our design proposal.
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Next slide, please.